Meh, it's no big deal. I dislike Kinsella, but all he said was that when the market actors get irrational, Finance ministers have to tell them a bed-time story to soothe them and stop them from wrecking the economy, and that Flaherty has duly done so.Which he has. It doesn't represent stellar performance or anything, but it's not a wrong thing to have done. For a change.

You speak pure nonsense. Flaherty has given Billions of tax dollars (from a lot of wage earning Canadians) to BIG corporations and it was all about branding ....

"Jim Flaherty, the Harper government’s Finance Minister, acknowledged in a telephone interview that corporate tax cuts are a tough sell when companies are still hoarding cash. But over the long term, he said, his “comfort zone” comes from the fact that business leaders and economists have widely endorsed tax cuts as a job creation tool.“Most importantly,” he said, “it’s a confidence builder in Canada, and it’s a way of branding Canada.”The Globe & Mail